LIU Ming-Jui

A Taiwan native, Ming-Jui has received several awards at various guitar competitions in Taiwan. He has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in different venues worldwide. In 2016, Ming-Jui was invited to give a solo recital in I Seminário Internacional de Violão do IFCE (Fortaleza, Brazil). In 2017, as a co-founder of Arvo Duo, Ming-Jui gave a duo recital in the 25th Long Island Guitar Festival. In 2018, Ming-Jui was a festival artist and judge in the 4th Qinling Mountains International Guitar Festival (Shaanxi, China). 

In addition to his performing career, Ming-Jui is a prolific composer and arranger and has published several original works and arrangements for solo guitar and chamber music in prestigious publications, including Canadian publishing house Doberman-Yppan, Gendai Guitar Magazine in Japan and Taiwan Guitar Society. Several of his arrangements are also available on IMSLP.  
As a sought-after teacher, Ming-Jui enjoys teaching all levels of students. He was a substitute teacher at Purchase College (NY, USA) and Stony Brook University (NY, USA), and an undergraduate chamber music coach at Stony Brook University. 

Ming-Jui holds his Doctor of Musical Arts in Classical Guitar Performance at Stony Brook University. His principal teachers have included Chan-Juan Chiu, Zhong-Shing Shie, Kevin R. Gallagher, Frederic Hand, Adam Holzman, Jerry Willard, and João Luiz Rezende Lopes. Ming-Jui also studied harmony, composition, and arrangement with Wen-Chuan Hu and João Luiz Rezende Lopes.
Currently Ming-Jui serves on the faculty of Conservatory of Music at Huanggang Normal University (Hubei, China).